Steph, your parents are... that's some crazy stuff. I want my daughter to have a good sex life, but I don't want to be in in or near the loop on that.

Fortunately I had therapy this morning, and we hashed all that out (again), and my therapist said "I feel like it's unprofessional to say this, but -- your parents are FUCKED UP." I assured her that that is the most reasonable reaction to their nonsense. (My brother's therapist is the same way -- once when my brother started off a session by saying that our Dad called him the day before, his therapist said, "Christ, THIS asshole again!")

I'm not watching the hearing. I just can't. But I am SUPER glad that The Good Place is back tonight! And don't forget -- it's an hour long tonight!

Here are ridiculously cute animal videos and photos. I don't have an Instagram. If you do, this might not be news to you, but I found it was a good way to occupy myself for a little while.

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Blasey Ford looks an awful lot like one of my cousins, which has upped my outrage (even though the meter was already pinned).

Huh:

Hi there,

I am a designer working with Santander (the bank) on a project in Brooklyn. The project consists of black and white photo's in various sizes within there space. I came across some of your photos on Flickr and I was wondering if you would be open to selling your photos.

We are still in the design stage, so this will only happen if the client accepts your photos but I wanted to get your permission before we even present them. If one is chosen, we would put a photo credit on it as well. A few questions for you are:

1. Can we show your photos to our client?

2. Will you sell us your photo if they chose yours?

3. How much per image?

4. What is the largest pixel size you have available?

Thanks so much!!

Katie

Well, that's awesome.

I don't really understand why but that makes me feel better.

Right? Meghan Markle, still out there living as a human person.

That is awesome, Tom! (Pretty sure the answer to #3 is one meeelion dollars. But if you don't have benchmarks, I know someone who sells a lot of pictures commercially and I could connect you. Her stuff is mostly pictures of flowers for sale at Target or on book covers, but still.)

Neat, Tom!

Not sure I wanna. And if I do want to, I have absolutely no idea what to quote them.

Tom, do you know this blog? [link]

You don't have to, of course. It's neat that they are leading off with "how much money can we give you" though